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sentimentalize
verb[ T ]
disapproving(UK usuallysentimentalise)uk /ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl.aɪz/ us /ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬ə.laɪz/
to present something in a way that is sentimental(= giving too much importance to emotions, especially love or sadness, and not enough to thought and reason): 使……感性化
Her book sentimentalizes parenthood and completely ignores the disadvantages of it.她的书将为人父母以感性化方式呈现，完全忽略了其中的种种不便。
Her story isn't sentimentalized, but told with understanding.她的故事没有被感性化，而是以理解的精神讲述。
See
sentimentalism
He refused to sentimentalize the scenes he drew.
The film does not sentimentalize its subject until the end.
She tends to sentimentalize the past.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make little of somethingidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
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